Citizens Life & Casualty Insurance Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 14, 1952

98 N.L.R.B. 663 (N.L.R.B. 1952)

CITIZENS LIFE & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 663
.CITIZENS LIFE & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 1 and INSURANCE AND
ALLIED WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, CIO, PETITIONER. Case
No. 21-RC-2277. March 14, 19593
Decision and Order
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9 (c) of the National
Labor Relations Act, a hearing was held before James W. Cherry,
Jr., hearing officer. The hearing officer's rulings made at the hearing
are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the Act, the Board
has delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-mem-
ber panel [Chairman Herzog and Members Houston and Styles].
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
The Employer, an insurance company, is engaged in selling life,
accident, and health insurance and industrial casualty insurance. It
is not licensed to do business in any State other than California, and
is prohibited from selling any new or additional insurance to indi-
viduals outside the State. It receives approximately 97 percent of
its total premiums from sources within the State and 3 percent from
policy holders who bought their insurance in California and later left
the State.
The total insurance in force is approximately $2,000,000. The Em-
ployer receives annually $145,000 in premiums, of which only $5,000
comes from policy holders outside the State. In 1947, the Employer
made investments amounting to $335,000, of which 66 percent was
in out-of-State securities. Since 1947, the Employer has made no
new investments.
The Employer contends that the Board neither has nor should as-
sert jurisdiction. While the Employer's operations are not unrelated
to commerce, the record does not disclose that the interstate aspects
of these operations are of sufficient magnitude to justify the assertion
of jurisdiction under the Board's announced policy? We shall dis-
miss the petition.
Order
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition herein be , and it hereby is,
dismissed.
I The Employer's name appears as amended at the hearing.
2 Golden Eagle Life Insurance Corporation, 95 NLRB 247; and Stan{lau8 Implement and
Hardware Company, Limited, 91 NLRB 618 ; Federal Dairy Co., Ino., 91 NLRB 638; The
Rutledge Paper Products , Inc., 91 NLRB 625.
98 NLRB No. 105.